iPod touch is much smaller and cheaper. A music player should be small.
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Apple Launches New 10.5-Inch iPad Air With A12 Bionic Chip and Apple Pencil Support, Starts at $499
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iPod touch is much smaller and cheaper. A music player should be small.
Hope that the 2-tier storage option is a sign of things to come with the next-gen iPhones.. Considering the amount of price gouging
A) It's not literally the 2017 ipad pro, there are some features that have been removed while others have been added.
B) It has a new name. There you go. That's what has been added - a fourth named line of iPad.
C) There is no 2019 iPad Pro yet.
iPad Air 2 is 5 years old. What confusion could there be? This lineup is extremely simple now.
I already conceded I was wrong on this point. Would you like me to sing the "I am very sorry song" to further atone for my sins?
"Apple has been failing miserably." LOL. Yes, they've failed to meet their customers needs and wants so badly they've sold tens of millions of iPads and hundreds of millions of iPhones each one of those years. When will they ever figure out what consumers want??? If they would only listen to the people on MR forums they might stop failing so badly.
I haven't read every comment in the thread, but I did manage to read the first sentence in the article.I already conceded I was wrong on this point. Would you like me to sing the "I am very sorry song" to further atone for my sins?
Dissapointed, but that was to be expected with the Apple of the past few years.
The way I look at it is Apple could’ve refreshed the cheap iPad this year, so for the $170 price premium, we are getting an A12 vs. A11, a better/bigger screen (laminated, wide gamut, true tone), improved selfie camera and 64gb base storage. Is that worth 50% more to most people?
Also, it’s long past time for quad speakers to be a standard feature across the entire iPad line. These are primarily media consumption devices for most people, especially the cheaper ones.
The way I look at it is Apple could’ve refreshed the cheap iPad this year, so for the $170 price premium, we are getting an A12 vs. A11, a better/bigger screen (laminated, wide gamut, true tone), improved selfie camera and 64gb base storage. Is that worth 50% more to most people?
Also, it’s long past time for quad speakers to be a standard feature across the entire iPad line. These are primarily media consumption devices for most people, especially the cheaper ones.
I wish they used screen-sizes in the names, instead of meaningless words like "air" and "mini." Or with the "regular" iPad, what does absence of "air" mean? iPad Vacuum?
This would be a lot clearer:
7.9" iPad
9.7" iPad
10.5" iPad
11" iPad Pro
12.9" iPad Pro
9.7" iPad
10.5" iPad
11" iPad Pro
12.9" iPad Pro
I think users can distinguish between three similar choices:
Good: iPad, $329, 9.7”
Better: iPad Air, $499, 10.5”
Best: iPad Pro, $799, 11.0”
iPhone XR: LCD, $749, 6.1”
iPhone XS: OLED, $999, 5.8”
iPhone XS Max, OLED, $1,099, 6.5”
Lightest: MacBook
Cheapest: MacBook Air
Fastest: MacBook Pro
It’s great for consumer choice, also good for business as you mention:
Apple Total Revenue (in billions)
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Or they could just sell some sort of wireless charger/pairing thing for 2nd gen Pencil. I can't imagine it being very difficult to make.
While they're at it make the 1st gen compatible with the new iPad Pros because the only thing stopping that is a compatible USB-C to Lightning adapter. **** Apple's inconsistent support for their own damn peripherals and deprecating the 1st gen Pencil so quickly even though its only real fault is inconvenient pairing/charging.
Amen. People assume other people are idiots and can't spend a few minutes to read up and decide what is best cost/benefit purchase for them. The thing I'd add to your charts would be "small, medium and large." Millions of people will buy the mini because it is an extraordinary travel device.
The 2018 A10-based $329 ipad is still due for an update but maybe it won’t be this year. I speculated in a prior post that Apple could well keep the A10 another year, it’s sufficiently fast for its intended target market (and for its price).So at least no new aspect ratios or screen sizes (so much for the 10.2" rumours)
When the $329 entry level iPad is updated, whether later this year or early next year, that’s when I think we’ll see the 10.2”. Maybe Apple will shrink the top/bottom bezels a bit and it’ll come with the new 10:7 aspect ratio, but maybe it’ll keep the 4:3, hard to say. The top and bottom bezels are quite large; if width stayed the same and the top/bottom bezels were reduced by about .2” (5mm) each, you’d have the new 10:7 aspect ratio with a resolution of approx 2196 x 1536.
Forwarding. DH has the 9.7” iPP. He may be interested in this because of the price point and slightly bigger screen. We were just talking about this over the weekend, too.
The direction seems pretty clear to me. Rather than have a single tier of devices, they have 2... a basic tier and a pro tier. Those who want a basic tier are not "insulted" by the non-Pro models. Those who want a pro tier with a distinction have the Pro models...which are very unique and will never be mistaken for the base models.
Seems to me the only ones who are "insulted" are the ones who want an iPad Pro at a base iPad price.
Except for the wrinkle that the iPad Mini is more expensive than the plain iPad.